In addition to the major papers submitted to the Dublin Core Conferences, the Metadata Management Associates partners have published and blogged regularly for many years. A selection of these are included below, including all of Diane Hillmann's columns "View from a Parallel Universe".

Metadata Quality: From Evaluation to Augmentation

Diane I. Hillmann. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 9-Jul-2007.

Abstract: The conversation about metadata quality has developed slowly in libraries, hindered by unexamined assumptions about metadata carrying over from experience in the MARC environment. In the wider world, discussions about functionality must drive discussions about how quality might be determined and ensured. Because the quality-enforcing structures present in the MARC world--mature standards, common documentation, and bibliographic utilities--are lacking in the metadata world, metadata practitioners desiring to improve the quality of metadata used in their libraries must develop and proliferate their own processes of evaluation and transformation to support essential interoperability. In this article, the author endeavors to describe how those processes might be established and sustained to support metadata quality improvement. Available at: hdl.handle.netÑ7899

Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century

Karen Coyle and Diane I. Hillmann. D-Lib Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2007, v. 13, no. 1/2.

Abstract: There is evidence that many individuals and organizations in the library world do not support the work taking place to develop a next generation of the library cataloging rules. The authors describe the tensions existing between those advocating an incremental change to cataloging process and others who desire a bolder library entry into the digital era. ' Available at: dlib.orgÑ01coyle.html

The Continuum of Metadata Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting

Thomas R. Bruce and Diane I. Hillmann. In "Metadata in Practice," Chicago : ALA Editions, 2004.

Abstract: Like pornography, metadata quality is difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but conveying the full bundle of assumptions and experience that allow us to identify it is a different matter. For this reason, among others, few outside the library community have written about defining metadata quality. Still less has been said about enforcing quality in ways that do not require unacceptable levels of human effort. Available at: hdl.handle.netÑ7895

Trepidation or Anticipation?: the Future of Cataloging and Catalogers -

Diane I. Hillmann. Slides from program presented at NELINET on December 5, 2008.

Available at: hdl.NELINET presentation archives on SlideShare

LC Bib Futures--Is It Our Future, Too?

Diane I. Hillmann. In Technicalities, v. 28, no. 2, Mar./Apr. 2008.

Available at: hdl.handle.netÑ9448

Metadata Wants to Be Free (and Muddy)

Diane I. Hillmann. In Technicalities, v. 28, no. 1, Jan./Feb. 2008.

Available at: hdl.handle.netÑ9372

Flying to Pluto

Diane I. Hillmann. In Technicalities, v. 27, no. 6, Nov./Dec. 2007.

Available at: hdl.handle.netÑ9458

Adding New Skills to our Skillset

Diane I. Hillmann. In Technicalities, v. 27, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 2007.

Available at: hdl.handle.netÑ7900

Great Leaps Forward

Diane I. Hillmann. In Technicalities, July/Aug. 2007, v. 27, no. 4.